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Hey folx! You probably see a lot of stuff from other social networks mirrored to Mastodon, how about we do it the other way around?
Recently, I've starred to mirror my posts to Instagram, Reddit, and other platforms, and I've had quite the success. My biggest post on Instagram, which is just one screenshot of a Mastodon post, has 44.5k likes and 256k views. My

Erik Uden on Instagram: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases, written by Sara Reardon, published on the 20th of May 2026. Though, reading this Science article made me think: aren't we the brain? Am I missing something here? Now, of course the devil lies in the detail and the article makes it clear that this startup only restores “some functions”, which is certainly more complex in action than it is in theory written here, but certain language of the article makes me question the author's understanding of what is a human. The article writes: “Just a day ago, the brain was in a living person. Now, hours after its owner died, it sits on a cart draped in tubes [...]” What do you mean “it's owner” — isn't the brain it's owner? Isn't that where it's owner is? I mean, certainly the brain had no more activity, the person must've been declared brain dead by all standards before being sent to this startup, still it's odd hearing someone donated their brain instead of saying they've donated... themselves? Also “using a set of proprietary brain-sustaining machines” is a terrible sentence I always thought the people who don't donate their full body to hospitals are religious lunatics, but this is the first time I wrote something on my organ donor card. They can take my brain, but not as one piece."
45K likes, 971 comments - erik.uden on May 21, 2026: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to inta…

"Earth is the cradle of humanity
but one cannot live in the cradle forever"
-- taken from a letter written by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1911
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Ex…

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Earth is the cradle of humanity but one cannot live in the cradle forevertaken from a letter written by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1911

What's worse than books written with temperatures expressed in degrees Fahrenheit?
Books written with temperatures expressed in "degrees", and you have to guess the scale from context.

You know what they say about hitting the translate button on a tweet written in Hebrew:

Warning: Beer
On a blackboard for a restaurant is written: BEER is the answer but I can't remember the question.
#photography #beer

«Security: This library has not undergone any third-party security audit. Usage is at own risk.»
If something like this is written on a code library, the confidence in your security is much higher than if commercial blenders want to advertise absolute IT security and there are the safest — especially when the commercial goals still list ratings in this way.
#security

Lots of patches are pending for @… - currently 8 open PRs, with even more to come.
Who could help out reviewing them? 🥺
https://github.com/oreboot/oreboot/pulls

Pull requests · oreboot/oreboot
oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust. - Pull requests · oreboot/oreboot

@…
What a wonderful manifesto you have written!
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/saas/34/1/saas340101…

Pulitzer Prize board members complain about Trump in court
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/yet-to-produce-a-single-written-response-frustrated-pulitzer-prize-board-members-tired-of-trump-acting-like-hes-above-the-law-in-discovery-ask-judge-to-act/

So glad that normally no one asks me to do video calls. Or calls at all. I’m a written text kind of guy…

Born to be Wild / Steppenwolf
written by Mars Bonfire

#EroticMusings 55. How do you show the initial spark of lust or love between characters? Share!
I realised while I enjoy reading slow burn written by others, I don't write it when writing erotica. If it's slow it's mostly offscreen and allows some leaps while the main story has some progress.
Mela and Camelia slowly falling for each other? They stare at each other u…

Had to get rid of some ants in the garden. My daughter was not pleased about this deathly maneuver but accepted it if we also set up grave stones for the ant’s memorial!
So if you need some crafts gravestones you know where to look for!
#RIP Ants

I’ve now written two essays this year on the U.K. Labour Party’s errors of strategy, which is not a lot, but is still more than I’d have expected.
The one from yesterday is about why their policies lost them stacks of votes.
The other one was about why they picked those policies in the first place
https://www.

The Gist: Britain, the Ungoverned Country
The Labour Party's problem since Kier Starmer was elected was that it fed itself disinformation and pooped disaffection. This is the Gist.

Hundreds of millions of dollars for securing the White House ballroom cannot be included in a Republican spending bill as currently written,
the Senate parliamentarian ruled Saturday.

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s proposed immigration enforcement bill includes $1 billion for security measures related to what the administration calls the
“East Wing Modernization Project”
— which includes President Donald Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom
— and other …

Hundreds of millions of dollars for Trump’s ballroom ruled out of order in Senate
The Senate parliamentarian determined that a proposal to fund $1 billion for White House security cannot be included as written.

Have other work so don't feel like building this, but:
I wanted to make an AI-generated prose detector that for a small sum will assess whether a piece of prose was written by AI. It will simply ignore the text return a random number between 91% and 98%. Think about it…

USA Today is using AI-assisted, pre-written soccer World Cup "shell files" for breaking news to capture traffic before Google's AI Overviews generate summaries (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/how-usa-today-co-is-tr…

How USA Today Co. is trying to beat AI Overviews on World Cup news
USA Today Co. is using AI tools to beat AI Overviews in the race for World Cup search traffic around breaking news.

The One Major Move Spytek, Raiders Absolutely Must Consider https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-major-move-spytek-absolutely-must-consider

Here's somebody's blog post about grackles' fondness for dropping feces in water, written from the perspective of an annoyed koi-pond owner. The author gives the usual explanation that behavior reduces nest predation (presumably because fecal smell is attractant). I couldn't find support for this hypothesis in the primary literature, however. Nor could I find support for the idea that a clean nest reduces parasites such as flesh-eating flies. But I'm not a birdologist so I could have missed the definitive paper. https://www.pondtrademag.com/blackbird-gift-sacs-the-airmail-no-pond-keeper-wants/

Just finished "Landing in Place" written by Sherine Hamdy and illustrated by Myra El Mir. A beautiful and emotional story that has a lot of great complicated perspective on wearing hijab, plus a lot of Egyptian historical and cultural details that I didn't know anything about. Some really interesting discussions about protest and revolution too.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Table top exercises (basically TTRPGs for government and business) can be used to test plans and refine plans without needing to actually experience a natural disaster, security event, etc. They're used by militaries to practice war. I've been part of such exercises to test incident response runbooks I've written.
I've been reading a friend's thesis about Operational Art and Critical Philosophy in relation to revolutionary praxis. I wonder if anyone has ever run a table top exercise for an action (or for higher level strategy), and, if so, has anything they could share about it?
While organizing with the Seattle GDC, our disaster prep group ran a table to exercise. We chose scenarios from a set of county exercises for local disaster preparedness. Our GM (who worked in public health at the time) had to modify it a lot to fit our use case, but it still gave us a lot of insight.
Unfortunately, it was a number of years ago so I don't really remember the specific scenario or what came out of it.
I did look back at some notes that I found, and we did suggest creating a D&D committee (partially just for conviviality). Reflecting on this in light of reading this thesis, I feel like we we're really on the mark.

@… "Can emojis be removed from Unicode? Or are they there forever once they are in?" - As of now, once they're in, they're in. The code point in Unicode is then reserved for this symbol. This can be a problem because emojis are kind of open-ended (other than alphabets and many other symbol lists). And it's possible that some emojis turn out to be rarely used. I could imagine that eventually some platforms just stop supporting a certain emoji - but it's really useful to have an international encoding standard which is fully supported by most technology (as anyone who has programmed or written online text in the early 2000s can attest). That's why getting a new emoji approved has become so hard - we're basically creating a kind of tech debt for a potentially long time.
Funny story - you could try creating a post now with a Unicode character from an "empty" code point in the emoji range, in the hope that it will get assigned in a later round. I've seen such a post on the old Twitter, which later was filled with all kinds of random emojis, when you look at it in a few years. #linguistics #emojis #WorldEmojiDay

I think the government has identified that 2026 is a really bad year for replacing a large number of personal computers. Sorry, everyone.
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-04-13/hl16286

Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament
Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

Today I spent a long time staring at the #linux kernel's dsb_sev(); trying to figure out why it wasn't triggering the WFE patches I've written for #qemu and it turns out we've tripped an errata workaround. So the bug isn't in my code, but there is still a bug ;-)

So, I'm still experimenting with locally run LLMs (powered by solar cells!) for writing some inconsequential data mangling stuff for my "vintage cameras" hobby; it's quite interesting how the development cycle with these LLMs sort of drives home that LLMs are completely useless for almost anything they're advertised for, like writing (for humans).
The thing is: coding is the use case that LLMs are by far most suitable for and they still largely suck at it.
There's immense amounts of training data of correctly functioning code, there's tons of documentation, a lot of code is in repositories that include the full history of its development including why stuff was changed in small bits, code itself is the simplest of "human" languages and mathematically non-ambiguous, code can be checked in small bits for correctness by just running it, in many languages simple code snippets can be written to introspect on the code (e.g. find out what methods an object supports, so an LLM can query the language or libraries themselves in addition to the user) and perhaps most importantly: code is always and has always been very similar to other, existing code as most software serves the ever same repetitive use cases, both in detail and on a high level.
YET… using LLMs to code requires countless iterations to get there, both internally in the LLM (to get the code even running in the first place) and together with the user to make it do the right thing. And even when it's "there" the code is mediocre at best, and often veering into appalling.
And this is expected to just work on the first try on much more complex issues like writing for humans? Transcribing doctors? Having legal opinions? Identifying fraud? lol, sure

@… I think this image is probably AI generated. I can't find a photographer credit, it only appears on random social media accounts. The poster in the back that says "Jimmy Show" is weird. The guys are all wearing their typical on-screen clothes, which is odd for a casual photo. The lettering on the sign feels like AI, not organically written: look …

from my link log —
jlibtool: A replacement for libtool written in C.
https://github.com/alandekok/jlibtool
saved 2022-08-03 https://dotat.at/:/TN3…

GitHub - alandekok/jlibtool: A replacement for libtool written in C
A replacement for libtool written in C. Contribute to alandekok/jlibtool development by creating an account on GitHub.

dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia

The One Major Move Spytek, Raiders Absolutely Must Consider https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-major-move-spytek-absolutely-must-consider

Hinge adds Friend's Take, a new feature that lets daters enlist 10 close contacts to share written feedback, photos, voice notes, or videos on their profiles (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Email: BBC says commissioning spend will be reduced by £80M by March 2028 and TV development budget will be slashed by 15% annually (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/06/bbc-slash-development-spend-1236958327/

BBC Tells Producers About Plans To Slash TV Development Spend By 15% Annually
BBC content chief Kate Phillips has written to producers to explain that the corporation's TV development budget will be slashed by 15% annually.

Wow! On the iOS App Store, OmniOutliner 6 for iOS currently has a perfect 5.0 / 5.0 rating! Pretty amazing for an app that anyone can download and rate for free. Thank you!
(Also, it's kind of wild that it's been over 25 years since we first announced OmniOutliner 1.0 beta 1 for Mac OS X Developer Preview 4: <

TIL there will be a sequel to "The Social Network" (again written by Aaron Sorkin) 😮
#TIL

An extraordinarily thoughtful and well-written guide.
Currently a community highlight (pinned) in Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1u6rdzz/freebsd_15_on_a_laptop/
@…

Best open world game by @…:
https://youtu.be/cY9AX5j-osY
Free download, modding included!
It's written in Rust btw

Kate Beckinsale to star in 'Twilight of the Dead' -- George Romero had written a treatment for it before he passed in 2017 and regarded Twilight of the Dead as the conclusion to his epic saga (six movies and various spinoffs and remakes). The most recent movie in the franchise came out in 2009.
https:/…

Kate Beckinsale To Star In ‘Twilight Of The Dead’ Movie; North American Deal In The Bag — Cannes Market
Underworld star Kate Beckinsale has been set to lead the "final chapter" of George A. Romero's classic zombie saga.

I inherited my copy of Plato's Republic from my father, and I have always assumed he got it while he was at university. He probably did. But I assumed he bought it new, and he didn't. He's written his name on the flyleaf, but above it someone else has written 'A H Pearce, Jan 88' (very nice handwriting). The title page dates it to 1881.
So this wee book is probably one hundred and forty five years old. It's in remarkable condition.

Ischia is Burning: The Novel I Have Been Writing for Thirty-Six Years
Most books are written. A few are excavated. Ischia is Burning is a book I excavated from a steel filing cabinet in a Manhattan apartment, where it had been sitting for more than three decades inside a folder marked Ischia, in the form of a screenplay I wrote at twenty-five years old in the second year of an MFA program at Columbia.

Ischia is Burning: The Novel I Have Been Writing for Thirty-Six Years | David Boles, Blogs
Most books are written. A few are excavated. Ischia is Burning is a book I excavated from a steel filing cabinet in a Manhattan apartment, where it had been sitting for more than three decades insi…

Klingt nice. Aber fast die Hälfte der Commits stammt von #Claude.
#vibecoding
https://bsd.network/@lcheylus/11656610

Iwo's Rigor Pack
https://www.iwoszapar.com/tools/rigor-pack

Not directly linking, but I just saw a Reddit post where someone shared their AI-written command line for speeding up file transmission, and it contains
| zstd -T0 -c | zstd -d -c |
and yeah, I *hope* an AI suggested that.

> Linux users: here is the tool enhancing the security of your system. It's written in Rust so it is super secure. It isolates your container via VM. So super secure.
> Also Linux users: install it via brew or dnf copr
#kvmrun #linux

from my link log —
Rust async task local variables from scratch.
https://wolfgirl.dev/blog/2026-06-16-async-task-locals-from-scratch/
saved 2026-06-16

Async Task Locals From Scratch
Some literate programming on a small crate I've written

7 but each one short.
#blogging

Rain is falling - JazMat
Rain is falling. Missus has a cold. Bedtime was late last night. Much there is to do today. God is good. (Written in the morning.) ¶ I identify with this...

Jasus, these people give me the shits!
One Nation policy to scrap SBS funding entirely, push ABC into regional-only role.
#ABC #SBS #OneNation

One Nation policy to scrap SBS funding entirely, push ABC into regional-only role
One Nation’s official media policy is to scrap all taxpayer funding for SBS, forcing the broadcaster to shut down or operate as a fully commercial entity.A party spokesman confirmed the position in a statement to Mumbrella, adding that a formal written policy on both SBS and the ABC is expected in the coming weeks.“Broadly, we […]

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 25417 nodes and 216738 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Amazingly, it's not (quite) sold out — but I don't think I can manage a short-notice trip to Canada. I adore "Slings and Arrows" though. What a night this is sure to be.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/toronto/arti

SLINGS & ARROWS Prequel THE AMATEURS to Reunite Original Cast in Stratford
Original cast members of Slings & Arrows, including Paul Gross, Martha Burns, and Bob Martin, will reunite in Stratford for a staged reading of The Amateurs, a new TV comedy prequel written by the original show's writing team.

One of my strong suites in all the packaging work is the knowledge in my head.
"Why don't you write it down for others to benefit from, then?", you'd ask.
The thing is, this knowledge is basically "hot cache". I'm bumping hundreds of #Python packages in #Gentoo, so I remember stuff. And because of that, I can quickly notice some things or answer some questions.
If that were written down, the effort needed to find it would diminish all the gain. I mean, technically *it is* already written down, and the whole point is that I have it "cached".

As recounted in the book "Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983" by Richard Evans.
A book that's absolutely fantastic by the way, impeccably researched and well-written, and should be on the reading list of anyone who loves OMD, The Human League, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, Visage etc
#80sMusic

NEW BOOK> Extraordinary Capacities in the Buddhist Path of Liberation: A Diachronic Study Based on the Theravāda Sources
https://ift.tt/3Z1NJoz
Third Symposium on Dance, Music, and Performing Arts of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

At a time when their is war on the european continent, our former ally the US does this... Putin will be pleased.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/world/europe/us-nato-cuts-drawdown-jets.html?un…

U.S. Plan Is Said to Pull a Third of Fighter Jets It Provides NATO for Europe
The plan, outlined by officials and in a written document, provides rare clarity about the extent to which the Trump administration intends to reduce its commitment to NATO.

🚀 Compiled into a single static executable, so the per-prompt check stays unnoticeable. Language-agnostic — usable to build rbenv/pyenv/phpenv-style setups.
📊 Written in Go (57%) and Shell (33%), MIT licensed, packaged in most distributions, 15.2k stars, latest release v2.37.1.

Just a quick reminder
Trusting AI with Code: How Secure is AI-written code? - Mackenzie Jackson - NDC Security 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIRfWAiTNEQ

NFL World Says Dak Prescott is Top-2 NFC Quarterback https://insidethestar.com/nfl-world-says-dak-prescott-is-top-2-nfc-quarterback

“oh… that code was written by a model that was retired three years ago, the new model doesn’t know why it exists”

In which I introduce my new project
#sql #postgreSQL

Introducing Retrofit | Chris K Wensel
Introducing Retrofit, a CLI that records database schema evolution as logical, identity-preserving operators instead of hand-written DDL migrations.

@… is getting ready to party at Donaukanal #Wien. Cool boat!

47 years ago #Skylab came down - and in anticipation the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRxn35Ketgk had been written.

I regret to inform you that Wayland has been canceled owing to recent developments https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-Rust-X11-Server

Turns out that tobacco multinational Philip Morris organised AI-written responses to the EC consultation on stricter rules for selling vapes. Over 70% of the Dutch responses were fully written by AI. https://nos.nl/l/2620686

Tabaksgigant laat AI 'publieksreacties' schrijven tegen strengere EU-regels: 'Dit is valsspelen'
De EU werkt aan strengere regels voor vapes en e-sigaretten. Philip Morris helpt burgers daar bezwaar tegen te maken.

Series recommendation of the day: #Deadloch!
Second and last season finished airing in March and I give both 8/10 ⭐
It is a well written crime/detective show, but very unique and therefore hard to describe. Let's just say:
You have to be okay with expletives flying around a lot. And with lesbians. Lot's of lesbians.

Went to the Japandult, a small Japanese fair in Munich („dult“ is an old Bavarian term for fair). It was nice but also expensive. 15€ to get in. They had some cultural shows (rap, flute music, a presentation from a Samurai school) and booths with handcrafts. Lots of anime plushies. Handmade, yes, but also cliche. You could buy some not so common snacks and sweets and they had a food truck with Takoyaki (balls filled with octopus)

I'd been idly thinking about trying to use a "cheap yellow display" to make a simple device to control a QRP Labs QMX over CAT control. Recently both N6HAN Han and OZ1LAV Steffen have written cool applications for the M5Stack Tab5 (kind of a superset of a typical CYD) for this purpose.
I'm interested in it as a panadapter for doing CW, and for easy frequency entry on a keypad.
Steffan recently added FT8, so out of curiosity I tried decoding some FT8 with wires thrown across the f…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Avalon Emerson:
🎵 Written into Changes
#AvalonEmerson
https://open.spotify.com/track/6IpMoihMwFyny7e13EaGJ9

@… @… Sadly the scheme as-written is half-baked.

wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 155820 nodes and 1358426 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigra…

He draws the curse of the Founders upon him and all those who support him.
#USpol #potus #NoKings

I seem to have written a wee essay about #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence #AGI
It's probably not in its final form yet, I'll probably revise a bit. Comments welcome.

AGI Will Not Have a Lizard Brain
Rejoice, for even though we do, verily, walk through the valley of the shadow of death, not all the phantasms we see in the valley are as dark as they appear.

so if AI is so amazing, why don’t articles and books written with it have huge “proudly made with AI” banners and stickers on it
we all know why

"I think when the history books are written about all of this and all the tell all memoirs, after you know who kicks the bucket, it's going to be revealed that all of these broken men have caused a ripple effect by their uniting and trying to keep their secrets covered up when I think we know a lot of them are in the closet, a lot of them are probably bisexual"
Pete Hegseth inadvertently revealed MAGA's secrets with masculinity initiative: analyst - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2677245107/

wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 1181 nodes and 13754 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, …

Just finished "The Bodyguard Unit" written by Clément Xavier, illustrated by Lisa Lugrin, with colors by Albertine Ralenti and translated from French to English by Edward Gauvin. An excellent and fascinating history of Edith Garrud, a Jiu-Jutsu instructor who helped train suffragettes in Britain to fight the police, and who fought alongside them at speeches and political rallies. It also of course has a lot of details of the suffragette movement, many of which I theoretically knew but never actually thought about, and others which I was totally unaware of, especially the degree of violence and the connections to other radical movements of the time.
An excellent graphic novel, both educational and funny.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/char

Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there's a twist | TechCrunch
In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.

OMG new obsession just dropped.
An OS built on Swift, and it looks very tasteful.
https://swiftos.tech/

🐢 #Atuin is an #opensource shell history tool written in #Rust that replaces your existing shell history with a #SQLite

When I was first learning to write,
my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror.
Being left-handed, I was imitating the hand strokes of my right-handed teachers instead of reversing their strokes to replicate the letters.
I gradually got the hang of writing in the correct direction, but it still feels natural for me to mirror-write.
I have a mirror-written childhood diary. Leonardo da Vinci, another lefty, did that too

Why Am I Left-Handed? | Quanta Magazine
An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once.

"Are there any other examples of written notations for body language?
I'm aware of "dance notation", which is roughly in the same direction, I suppose." - I didn't know dance notation, will have to look into it!
There is an increasing amount of work in #linguistics on gesture, and there are some inventories of #gesture based on basic components like location, hand and finger configuration, movement. We have a research cluster on Visual Communcation where we investigate the commonalities between visual forms of communication such as emojis, gestures, and sign language: @…
Sign language of course has notational forms as well, and in this dictionary of German Sign Language, signs can be searched by location, hand form, etc.: #emojis #WorldEmojiDay

6AM City is profitable as of Q1, expects a profit margin of 10%-20%, has 19 editor-led and 400 AI-written newsletters with plans for 1500 in the coming months (Kari McMahon/A Media Operator)
https://www.amediaoperator.com/news/6am-citys-secret-weap…

6AM City's Secret Weapon? 400 Newsletters With No Staff
Stock.adobe.com 6AM City, the local newsletter publisher, hit profitability this year by changing the economics of the business—and with the addition of

"Trump apparently shared a text that Zuckerberg sent him that included a photo of a letter written by one of his children in which the little one wrote that they “looked forward to the golden age of America.”
Trump Reportedly Showed Elon Musk Texts of Tech Execs Kissing the Ring
https://gizmodo.com/trump-reportedly-showed-elon-musk-texts-of-tech-execs-kissing-the-ring-2000774284

dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia

from my link log —
slimcc: C23 compiler with C2y/GNU extensions for x86-64 Linux/BSD, written in C99.
https://github.com/fuhsnn/slimcc/tree/main
saved 2026-05-25

GitHub - fuhsnn/slimcc: C23 compiler with C2y/GNU extensions for x86-64 Linux/BSD, written in C99
C23 compiler with C2y/GNU extensions for x86-64 Linux/BSD, written in C99 - fuhsnn/slimcc

🌈 zsh-patina is an #opensource #Zsh plugin that highlights your command line while you type — written in #Rust, MIT licensed 🧵👇

So I’m actually with Apple on their stance on the EU having very bad legislation on the Siri AI thing.
The EU is good at being relatively proactive at making legislation protecting consumers, but some of these laws also backfire and/or are just badly written or interpreted.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-delayed-in-eu-for-ios-27-and-ipados-27/

WWDC26 has an announcement for "container machine" (persistent Linux containers under macOS that map home directories) but they haven't actually done the 1.0 release yet. https://github.com/apple/container

GitHub - apple/container: A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.
A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. - apple/container

There’s a remarkable new book out about the life and work of Andreas Floer, entitled
The Floer Jungle,
co-written by writer Siobhan Roberts
(author of some great biographies of mathematicians)
and mathematician Helmut Hofer.
The story of Floer’s career and his work is a fascinating one.
The book is written at a mixture of levels,
starting out with some chapters explaining background at an easily accessible level,
but then moving on to the det…

dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia

The rulebooks that decide how your national forests get run, who gets a grazing permit, how a timber sale gets reviewed for damage to water and wildlife, what deadline you have to object before a decision goes final, aren’t written by Congress.
They’re written inside the Forest Service, in a system of manuals and handbooks most people never see.
And for decades, the law has treated the important parts of that system as public business, something the agency can’t change without …

Forest Service to Remove Your Voice from Public Lands Decisions
A new proposal would shrink the public’s right to comment on the rulebooks that govern grazing, logging, and permits across the national forests. Comment now.

from my link log —
A simple ray tracer written in the meson.build language.
https://github.com/annacrombie/meson-raytracer
saved 2023-11-19 https://

Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/char

Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there's a twist | TechCrunch
In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.

dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia

How the internet, smartphones, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer written works like books, as social media spikes (Rose Horowitch/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-a…

dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…